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#2
Artist:
Eric B. & Rakim Toast's comments: By the time the album came out,
What I find amusing is that this came out in the era when Sample Lyrics:
"I Ain't No Joke"
"I got a question -- it's serious as cancer Song listing:
1. I Ain't No Joke
Title:
Paid in Full
Year Released:
1987
Label:
4th & Broadway
Eric B & Rakim were already well known in rap music for the single
"Eric B. Is President" released on the tiny Harlem label Zakia.
the DJ was mentioned in the group prior to the MC.
Eric B. gets billing ahead of Rakim, when it is obvious to everyone
that Rakim is the genius in this group.
Who can keep the average dancer
hyper as a heart attack, nobody smilin
Cause you're expressin, the rhyme that I'm stylin
This is what we all sit down to write
You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite
Use pieces and bits of all my hip-hop hits
Get the style down pat, then it's time to switch
Put my tape on pause, and add some more to yours
Then you figured, you're ready for the neighborhood chores
A E-M-C-E-E don't even try to be
When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me
You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate
Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me
So when you see me come up, freeze
Or you'll be one of those seven MC's
They think that I'm a new jack, but only if they knew that
they who think wrong are they who can't do that
style that I'm doin, they might ruin
Patterns of paragraphs, based on you and
your offbeat DJ, if anything he play
sound familiar, I'll wait 'til E. say
"Play 'em," so I'ma have to diss and bro
you can get a smack for this, I ain't no joke"
2. Eric B. Is on the Cut
3. My Melody
4. I Know You Got Soul
5. Move the Crowd
6. Paid in Full
7. As the Rhyme Goes On
8. Chinese Arithmetic
9. Eric B. Is President
10. Extended Beat